Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Hurricane

I went to the office yesterday to use the gym. Work was closed because there was some sort of weather problem in the area. I did my core work, those damn knee exercises, and then went out to run and it was cold and rainy....so I wimped out and went back up to run on the treadmill. I figured I'd might as well make myself run 3 miles easy and at least get SOME miles in. Get my metabolism going and whatnot.

I ran the first mile in 7:10 and it felt horribly slow and boring. Edged it up to 6:40 and then decided the only way I'd survive on this silly machine was to go fast. I'd wanted to run 5miles outside everyday anyways so I set myself to run 5miles. Ran the 3rd mile in 6:10, the 4th in 5:40....tried to do the 5th in 5:10 but I had to back it down near the end and got 5:16. Somewhere in that mile I decided to run 10k and I got the last 10k of a marathon going in my brain. Couldn't hold the 5:20 pace and backed it off slightly....and then slightly again for 5:33 and then the .2 I sped back up to just under 5min pace.

Then I jogged 3/4 mile and walked 1/4 mile. First 3 miles in 20min and then next 3 in 16:30.....I'll take that!! Of course...In my mind I was pulling away the last 5k in the marathon. The crowd went crazy.... :-)